> boy does the JVM suck outside of server deployments Does it? Why? Is it significantly worse than any other language that needs a runtime like Python or Node?

> boy does the JVM suck outside of server deployments Does it? Why? Is it significantly worse than any other language that needs a runtime like Python or Node? `java -jar foo.jar MainClass` doesn't seem all that bad. Plus you can wrap it in a trivial shell script if you want.